by Yolanda Monge,
Days pass and further details are the operation that ended the life of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Details like the exact number of Navy Seals who participated in the assault on the hideout of the leader of Al Qaeda or the decision to launch the attack the night of May 1 was because it was feared that the plan had just leaked to the press because they already knew too many people within the administration. Among the new revelations, one is particularly curious and robs Bin Laden the code name that the world thought had been given for the operation. Bin Laden was not Geronimo, never was. Geronimo was the representation of the letter 'G', the stage that was the command sent to capture bin Laden at the time of eye contact with the terrorist and what they reported to the CIA headquarters in Langley (Virginia). Each step of the mission had been labeled alphabetically (A, Alpha, B, Bravo ... in the military alphabet, the 'G' has attributed the word 'Golf' but for internal reasons decided to use the name of Geronimo).
What is tested with the exclusive information provided yesterday by the Associated Press and picked up from sources close to the deal is that both the White House as the protagonists in the assault troops knew they only had one chance, that if bin Laden escape them, if he was in the house could disappear for another decade. He almost
out all wrong. The element of surprise with which the CIA was playing an offside very beginning of the mission to fail one of two helicopters from which the seals had to climb down. The soldiers were forced to leave the aircraft, which later would fly, and internal access from the street rather than through the air and silently. On board the two Black Hawk helicopters were flown to Abbottabad a total of 23 seals, an interpreter and a tracking dog named Cairo. In total, 19 seals the well-known as Team 6 would enter the residence and three had the specific mission to be who find bin Laden.
Another 24 members of Team 6 waiting for reinforcement on two Chinooks in a deserted area in Pakistan at a distance of two thirds of Abbottabad, where they had landed after leaving Jalalabad (Afghanistan) and waits for commands. One of those two Chinooks flew then to the hideout of Bin Laden to collect the body of the terrorist, the seals that had been left without transport and weapons and equipment seized in the assault.
Since starting the operation took 15 minutes to find the leader of Al Qaeda and other 20 (an estimated 23) to fly the helicopter failed and move to a safe place ten women and 18 children so they will not affect the explosion. Having failed to enter the air, the seals were forced to fly walls and move forward with the help of explosives to gain access to the third floor of the residence, which was supposed to be public enemy number one in the United States. In its advance, elite military found the first resistance and shot three men and a woman shouted to alert residents of the house. At all three levels of the house, the soldiers met with groups of children, as recorded AP.
already on the third floor, the three seals with orders to find bin Laden saw the goal at the end of the landing of the staircase, which had agreed. Bin Laden also saw them them and went back to his room. One of the soldiers was quick to follow. In the apartments of the terrorists, two women trying to protect Bin Laden and shouted at the U.S. military. The first signal came in the room away fearing women who carried explosives vests. Another seal was agreed and the room and shot at Bin Laden.
A bullet in the chest and once in the head killed him. Geronimo phase was over and so was notified to the Situation Room of the White House. Osama Bin Laden had been captured, dead. In Within hours, his body would fly first to the Bagram base in Kabul (Afghanistan) and then to an aircraft carrier located in the Arabian Sea, whose waters would swallow forever the most hated man in America.
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